John WH Underwood

John WH Underwood

John William Henderson Underwood (born November 20, 1816 in Ellenton , Colquitt County , Georgia , †  July 18, 1888 in Rome , Georgia) was an American politician . Between 1859 and 1861 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Underwood attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1835, he began Clarkesville to work in his new profession. Between 1843 and 1847 he was the chief prosecutor in the Georgia Western Judicial District. Politically, Underwood was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1850, he attended a meeting to revise the Georgia Constitution as a delegate. In 1857 he was a delegate at the Democratic State Party Congress; from 1857 to 1859 he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives and chairman.

In the congressional election of 1858 Underwood was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded Augustus Romaldus Wright on March 4, 1859 . After the State of Georgia declared its withdrawal from the Union, Underwood resigned his seat in Congress on January 21, 1861. His entire time in the US House of Representatives was determined by the discussions and events in the immediate run-up to the Civil War .

During the ensuing civil war served Underwood Brigade inspector army of the Confederacy . After the war he worked as a lawyer again. He was a Justice on the Superior Court of Georgia from 1867 to 1869 and from 1873 to 1882 . In 1868 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in New York . In 1884 he was appointed to the Federal Customs Commission by US President Chester A. Arthur . John Underwood died in Rome on July 18, 1888.

Web links

• John WH Underwood in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John WH Underwood in the database of Find a Grave (English)